"With the ladies you must have managed well."

     "But not with you?"

     "You did not act the character of a gipsy with me."

     "What character did I act? My own?"

     "No; some unaccountable one. In short, I believe you have been trying to draw me out--or in; you have been talking nonsense to make me talk nonsense. It is scarcely fair, sir."

     "Do you forgive me, Jane?"

     "I cannot tell till I have thought it all over. If, on reflection, I find I have fallen into no great absurdity, I shall try to forgive you; but it was not right."

     "Oh, you have been very correct--very careful, very sensible."